vise

Example Sentences

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State Legislatures are caught in a legal vise.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025

Koufax created a vise between his middle finger and the knuckle on his ring finger.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2024

“It’s like having a big block of ice in a vise and you are just slowly cranking up the vise,” he said.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 5, 2024

It’s no cause for alarm, but it felt as if a vise were being twisted tighter and tighter around my chest.

From Slate • Nov. 26, 2023

The cold of the water feels like a vise but I hold it there, hearing the bubbling of the water rushing by and the wordless barks of a worried Manchee hopping around my feet.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness